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Vivenot jr., Rudolph Rt. von.
Über eine eigenthümliche Trübung des Himmels in Sicilien und deren Beziehung zum Sciroco. Wien, Gerold, 1866.
20 SS. 8vo. OBr. Sonderabdruck aus dem I. Bd. der Zschr. der Österr. Gesellschaft für Meteorologie. - Sauberes, unaufgeschnittenes und unbeschnittenes Exemplar.
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Gigas, Johann Michael (resp.). / Stupanus, Johann Niklaus (praes.).
Conclusiones medicae de oblivione seu laesa memoria [...]. Basel, Johann Schröter, 1602 (am Schluß in 2 Chronogrammen wiederholt).
(20) SS. sowie 2 Bll. beigebundenes Manuskript. Mit Holzschnitt-Titeleinfassung. Papierner Heftstreifenrücken. 4to. Einzige Ausgabe dieser seltenen Basler Dissertation über die Amnesie, verteidigt von Johannes Michael Gigas (1582-1637), der später als früher Kartograph Westfalens hervortreten sollte. Seine Karten von Münster, Paderborn und Corvey bestechen "in ihrer sauberen, zum Teil auf eigenen Messungen beruhenden Zeichnung und durch ihre künstlerische Aufmachung [...] Sein bedeutsamstes Werk ist der 'Prodromus geographicus', ein Atlas, der die Erzdiözese Köln und einige ihrer Suffraganbistümer in ihren weltlichen Territorien darstellt (Köln 1620)" (NDB VI, 390f.). Doch auch in der Medizin blieb er lebenslang tätig: "Als Leibarzt des Fürstbischofs übte er eine offensichtlich angesehene ärztliche Praxis aus; so betreute er die Fürsten von Ostfriesland, die Generale Gallas und Tilly und andere hochgestellte Persönlichkeiten, auch das Domkapitel und der eingesessene Adel zählten zu seinen Patienten" (ebda.). - Am Schluß beigebunden ein zeitgenössisches handschriftliches Verzeichnis weiterer 52 Dissertationen mit deren jeweiligen Verfassern. Unbeschnittenes Exemplar aus der Sammlung des Wiener Neurologen Heinrich Obersteiner (1847-1922) mit dessen Stempel am Titel. VD 17, 7:693892E.
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Screta, Ludwig Lucius.
Dissertatio inauguralis medica de paralysi [...]. Basel, Johann Ludwig König, 1687.
(12) SS. Geheftet. 4to. Einzige Ausgabe dieser seltenen Dissertation über die Paralyse. - Titel etwas wasserrandig und fleckig, am unteren Rand beschnitten (kein Textverlust). Exemplar aus der Sammlung des Wiener Neurologen Heinrich Obersteiner (1847-1922) mit dessen Stempel am Titel. VD 17, 39:164140C.
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Volradt, Peter (auct.) / Schröter, Philipp Jacob (praes.).
Cymba disputationis medicae ex tortuosis, nodosis, monstrosis, ac rigidis epilepsiae fraxinis conglomerata, connodata, compacta [...]. Jena, Johann Beithmann, 1616.
(150) SS. Geheftet. Dreiseitiger gesprenkelter Rotschnitt. 4to. Seltene Jenenser Dissertation über die Epilepsie unter dem Vorsitz des Mediziners Philipp Jacob Schröter (1553-1617). - Papierbedingt durchgehend gebräunt. Am Titel alte hs. Besitzvermerke sowie altes Signaturschildchen; Bindung vielfach gebrochen bzw. gelockert. VD 17, 23:292599D.
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Kirchner, Paul Christian / Jungendres, Sebastian Jacob (ed.).
Jüdisches Ceremoniel, oder Beschreibung dererjenigen Gebräuche, welche die Jüden sowol inn- als ausser dem Tempel, bey allen und jeden Fest-Tägen, im Gebet, bey der Beschneidung, bey Hochzeiten, Auslösung der Erst-Geburt, im Sterben, bey der Begräbnüß und dergleichen, in acht zu nehmen pflegen. Nunmehro aber bey dieser neuen Auflage mit accuraten Kupfern versehen [...] von Sebastian Jacob Jungendres. Nürnberg, Peter Conrad Monath, 173[0?].
4to. (10), 226, (26) pp. Title page printed in red and black. With engraved frontispiece (J. G. Puschner del et sc.), engr. separate double-page-sized title, and 28 double-page-sized engraved plates. Contemporary half vellum with ms. spine title; all edges coloured blue. A later edition of Kirchner's important manual of Jewish ceremonies and rites, first published in Jauer in 1716 (while Jungendres's expanded and well-illustrated edition first appeared in 1724). The plates show Rosh Chodesh, the Sabbath, Passover, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Chanukkah, Purim, circumcision, engagement, marriage, divorce, burial, etc., as well as liturgical objects, costumes, and rooms. The Polish-born Kirchner had been a rabbi in Fürth before converting to Protestantism in 1713, giving up his birth name Gumpel Mardochai (though Jungendres's preface suggests that he later returned to his old faith). Many of his descriptions are representative of the stricter Polish rites, rather than those observed by the more lenient German community. The engravings by the Nuremberg artist Johann Georg Puschner (commissioned by Jungendres) depict scenes from the Jewish congregation and synagogue of Fürth. "Today most libraries offer merely the reprint published in 1974. This reproduces the Erlangen University Library's copy of an edition of which the exact year of printing is not known, as it is not fully printed, reading only '173...'. Thus, it is only known that another edition was produced in the 1730s - likely in 1730, and certainly in 1735" (cf. Herzig, p. 19). In the present copy, the year of printing has been completed by a contemporary hand to read "1739". Binding somewhat rubbed and stained; old library shelfmarks to flyleaf. Altogether a good, fairly wide-margined copy. A. Herzig, Das Interesse am Judentum zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts: Paul Christian Kirchners 'Jüdisches Ceremoniel', in: Ashkenas 20 (2010), pp. 1-20. Cf. Lipperheide Oc 20. Hiler 500. Fürst II, 190. Mayer, Bibliography of Jewish Art, 1261. Not in Colas.
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm.
Ars combinatoria [...]. Frankfurt, Heinrich Christoph Cröcker, 1690.
4to. (3), 78 pp. With an engraved plate bound as a frontispiece. Contemporary marbled boards. Second edition of Leibniz's groundbreaking work on combinatorics. It was first published in 1666 as "Dissertatio de arte combinatoria", expanded from the author's thesis "Disputatio arithmetica de complexionibus", with which he earned the venia legendi. This unauthorized re-release, produced 24 years later, caused Leibniz to respond with corrections in the Acta Eruditorum of 1691. Both editions are extremely rare; NUC lists no more than two copies of the present one. - This is Leibniz's earliest work in combinatorics, the branch of mathematics concerned with the study of finite or countable discrete structures. It thus constitutes an early and important contribution to the scientific foundations of modern computer engineering. "In this treatise, Leibniz undertook that part of his grand plan that aimed at achieving a complete set of possible connections of terms, and the mathematical conception of this problem he named 'ars combinatoria' - a name that would stick" (cf. Cantor). This early work of Leibniz is all the more remarkable for the "very modest specialized knowledge that he then possessed [and which] is reflected in the 'Dissertatio de arte combinatoria'" (DSB). - Somewhat browned throughout as common due to paper. Trimmed rather closely, with some professional remarginings at the top edge near the end of the book and repairs to the gutter of the title page (loss of a few letters at the very left, some unobtrusively supplied). A single copy in auction records (1998: Reiss 65, lot 583: 65,000 DM). Apart from the frontispiece, VD 17 cites 33 numbered plates - in apparent error, for no known copy contains more than this single plate. VD 17, 12:194409W. Poggendorff I, 1413. DSB VIII, 153 & 160. Cantor III, 43-45. NDB XIV, 122. Cf. Ravier 6.
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Pomet, Pierre.
A compleat history of druggs. To which is added, what is further observable on the same subject, from Mess. Lemery and Tournefort, divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral; with their use in Physics, Chymistry, Pharmacy, and several other Arts. London, [William Bowyer] for R. and J. Bonwicke, and R. Wilkin [et al.], 1725.
4to. Two vols. in one. (24), 419, (9) pp. Title page printed in black and red. Text in double columns. With 86 numbered engr. plates (often with multiple images per plate). Old panelled calf, neatly rebacked to style with original gilt label laid down, leading edges gilt. Second edition in English, the first having appeared in two volumes in 1712. William Bowyer printed both this second edition (500 copies) and the 1737 third edition. The original French edition was published in 1694, and drew upon Pomet's own travels, as well as his expertise and business as a practicing pharmacist. Contains many notices of oriental medicinal plants and herbs, including the famous "Balsam of Mecca": "The Turks, who go a pilgrimage every year to Mecha, bring from thence a certain dry white balsam, in figure resembling white copperas calcin'd, especially when it is stale. The person who made me a present of about half an ounce, assur'd me, that he brought the same from Mecha liquid, and that the smell is the same as observ'd before. The same person likewise did testify to me that it was as good as Balm of Gilead" (p. 205). - Pomet (1658-99) was appointed druggist to Louis XIV, and in the introductory notes to the online exhibition at the University of Wales, "The Weird World of Pierre Pomet," the curator observes: "Parisian Pierre Pomet's pharmacopoeia [...] was intended not only as a handbook for the medical trade but also as a rough guide to the exotic for armchair travellers. Much of its appeal, then as now, comes from the illustrations which pepper the book: pictures of weird animals and weird people doing weird things in weird countries." - Early bookplate ("IKJ") and ownership signature ("H. Jones"), occasional dusting or minor offsetting. A very good, crisp copy. ESTC T111989. Wellcome IV,142. Garrison-Morton 1827.1 (French ed.). Hunt II, 428 (1712 ed.).
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Fries, Lorenz.
Ein kurtze Schirmred der Kunst Astrologie, wider etliche unverstandene Vernichter, auch etliche Antwurt uff die Reden und Fragen Martini Luthers Augustiners, so er in seinen zehen Gebote[n] unformlich wider dise Ku[n]st getho[n] hat. (Strasbourg, Johann Grüninger, 1520).
4to. (20) pp. (final blank). With woodcut title border. 18th century marbled wrappers. Extremely rare first and only edition: a defence of astrology written against the criticisms of Martin Luther, quoting Avicenna and other Arabic scholars. "In 1520 Luther had published a comment to the decalogue, including among the violators of the first commandment also magicians, necromancers, and astrologers. Luther's hostility toward astrology was great; moreover, this anti-astronomical polemic on a religious basis was widespread enough as was the traditional, contrary attempt to show [...] the religious legitimacy of astrology. But, coming from a heretic such as Luther, this new attack on astrology could very easily be turned around. Laurent Fries, a physician and astrologer of Colmar, intervened in defense of the science of the stars with a short work (Ein kurtze Schirmred der Kunst Astrologie ... [A Brief Defense of the Art of Astrology], J. Grüninger, Strasbourg, 1520) written in the form of a dialogue between Fries himself and Luther. In this work Fries tried to show that astrology was, from a Christian point of view, perfectly orthodox and not therefore, as Luther had maintained, a pagan science" (cf. C. Ginzburg, Il nicodemismo [Turin, 1970], p. 30). Among the witnesses called by Fries in defense of astrology are not only the gospels and the great thinkers of antiquity, but also several of the great Muslim philosophers and physicians, including Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (Rhazes) and 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi (Haly Abbas). - Occasional insignificant browning; some smudging of printer's ink on second and third folio; contemporary correction and marginal note in ink on fol. A2v. Apparently removed from an old sammelband, numbered "37" at the head of the title by an early hand. Not a single copy is known in the trade; only one is listed via VD16 (in the Bavarian State Library in Munich; a variant imprint of the title is in Göttingen). VD 16, F 2861. USTC 644398. Not in Pegg, Hohenemser, Knaacke, Kuczynski etc.
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Hero Alexandrinus.
Spiritalium liber. Amsterdam, Johann Jansson à Waesberge, 1680.
4to. (4), 120 pp. With 82 engravings in the text. Early 19th c. full calf with green labels to gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. First printing of this Latin edition, based on Federico Commandino's translation. Includes Giambattista Aleotti's "Quatuor theoremata spiritualia" (in Latin translation). A very prettily illustrated work showing the fountains, water-powered machines, and hydraulic organs described by the Greek mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria in the first century A.D. - Well-preserved. Hoffmann II, 217. Graesse III, 258.
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Pawlow, Iwan Petrowitsch.
Die Arbeit der Verdauungsdrüsen. Vorlesungen. Autorisierte Übersetzung aus dem Russischen von Dr. A. Walther. Mit einem Vorwort und Zusätzen des Verfassers. Wiesbaden, J. F. Bergmann, 1898.
XII, 199, (5) SS. Marmorierter Halbleinenband der Zeit mit goldgepr. Rückentitel. Dreiseitiger Marmorschnitt. 4to. Erste deutsche Ausgabe, die erste überhaupt in einer westlichen Sprache. Es war diese Ausgabe, die dem Werk Pawlows (1849-1936) ihre weltweite Bedeutung verschaffte. Zugleich die früheste Edition dem Sammler zugängliche Ausgabe (die russische Auflage von 1897 gilt als praktisch unauffindbar). - "Speichelbildung ist eine geläufige Erfahrung; sie kann auch ohne den Anblick oder Geruch von Speisen erzeugt werden. Bei einem Menschen kann sich diese Reaktion zum Beispiel dann einstellen, wenn er hört, wie im Nebenraum der Tisch zum Essen gedeckt wird, und beim Hund ist dieselbe Erscheinung zu verzeichnen, wenn er beispielsweise das Klappern seines Freßgeschirrs hört. In einer Reihe von Vorlesungen, die Pawlow in Petersburg hielt und die im Jahr darauf veröffentlicht wurden, befaßte er sich eingehend mit der Erforschung dieser Vorgänge und lieferte damit einen bedeutenden Beitrag zu unserem Wissen über die Physiologie der Verdauung. Im Verlauf dieser Vorlesungen beschrieb er den künstlichen Magen für Hunde, mit dem es ihm gelang, zum ersten Mal Magensäfte ohne Nahrungszufuhr zu erzeugen [...] Pawlows Ergebnisse bilden eine Ergänzung zu denen Freuds, und viele schreiben ihnen eine wesentlichere Bedeutung zu. Wie bei Freud, so haben wir es auch hier mit dem Werk eines einzigen Mannes und mit einem völlig neuen Weg zu tun. Pawlow erhielt den Nobelpreis für Medizin im Jahre 1904" (Carter/Muir, S. 689f.). - "This first edition in German is the first translation of this classic work on the digestive glands, published in Russia the year before" (Heirs of Hippocrates). - Papier schwach gebräunt; Anstreichungen eines zeitgenöss. Lesers in Bleistift und blauem Buntstift. Ungarisches Buchhändleretikett "Lévay Márton", Nagyvárad (heute Oradea in Rumänien). Dibner 135. Heirs of Hippocrates 1105. Horblit 83. Waller 7257. Garrison/Morton 1022. Fischer 1183. Vgl. PMM 385 (russ. EA von 1897). Nicht bei Borst.
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Trebra, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von.
Erfahrungen vom Innern der Gebirge, nach Beobachtungen gesammlet. Dessau & Leipzig, auf Kosten der Verlagskasse für Gelehrte und Künstler, 1785.
Folio (260 x 382 mm). (6), X, 244 pp. With engraved title vignette, 4 engravings in the text, and 8 folding engraved plates (all in original hand colour, some raised with mineral dust). Contemporary marbled boards with green spine label. All edges red. First edition of this famous, splendidly illustrated monograph on mining; also the first geological study of Germany's Harz region. Contains details on mineralogy, fossils, lodes, and mines, as well as "some excellent early observations on chemical geology; obviously inclined to afford those slow and inconspicuous changes in the earth crust the importance that they really deserve" (ADB). Also remarkable for the fine vignettes, engraved by G. M. Kraus after drawings by F. H. Spoerer. These vignettes, as well as Goethe's contributions to the entire work, are discussed extensively in Schmid, "Goethe und die Naturwissenschaften", no. 414f. Trebra (1740-1819) accompanied Goethe on his journey over the Harz and remained his advisor in mineralogical matters throughout his life. The plates, some of which are raised with ore dust, are based on drawings now in the Goethe-Nationalmuseum in Weimar. - Binding slightly rubbed and bumped along the raised bands; otherwise a very clean, crisp copy on superior paper. Includes the second illustration to plate V (Vb, mounted); the window in plate 2, providing a view of the lode in plate 3, lacks the flap as usual. Provenance: from the library of Pfannberg castle in Styria, bearing the stamp of the Austrian industrialist Franz Baron Mayr von Melnhof (1810-89, owner of the Donawitz ironworks and the Kapfenberg steel foundry) on pastedown and title. Hoover 796. DSB XI, 455. Reichardt I, 136. Poggendorff II, 1127. Ferchl 541. Kippenberg 5736. ADB LIV, 708f.
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Maupertuis, [Pierre Louis] de.
Versuch einer Cosmologie. Berlin, Nicolai, 1751.
8vo. 107, (1) pp. - (Bound with) II: Bischof, Johann Christoph. Betrachtungen des Weltgebäudes und einiger Merkwürdigkeiten der Natur. Danzig & Leipzig, Wedel, 1764. (40), 226, (12) pp. With 14 engraved plates. - (Bound with) III: Schmid, N[icolaus Ehrenreich Anton]. Von den Weltkörpern. Zur gemeinnützigen Kenntniss der großen Werke Gottes. Hannover, [Schlüter], 1766. (12), 172 pp. - (Bound with) IV: Huygens, Christian. Weltbeschauer oder vernünftige Muthmaßungen, daß die Planeten nicht weniger geschmükt und bewohnt seyn, als unsere Erde. Zürich, Orell, Geßner u. Comp., 1767. (8), 224 pp. (Bound with) V: Dommerich, Johann Christoph. Sphaerologia Oder Kurzer Unterricht Wie sowol Die Himmels als Erdkugel beschaffen, und recht zu gebrauchen [...]. Lemgo, Meyer, 1745. (16), 164, (12) pp. With 6 (instead of 8) folding engr. plates. With engr. title vignette and 4 engr. plates. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped title to spine. Splendid sammelband containing five rare 18th-c. "Cosmologica" (spine title). - I: Very rare first German edition of Maupertuis' "Essai de cosmologie" published the previous year. Not in OCLC or German auction records. - II: First edition of the only work published by Bischof, teacher at the Stettin Gymnasium; treats fixed stars, comets, will-o'-the-wisps, dew, storms, and rainbows. Very rare; only a single, faulty copy in auction records (R&A, 71, 2196; wanting frontispiece and 4 engravings). - III: First edition of Schmid's much-reprinted and translated principal work. Treats the earth, the planets, their orbits, size, and distance, the sun, light, gravitation, fixed stars, and comets. Schmid was among the first astronomers to attempt using the new science of electricity for sun physics. - IV: Second German edition. "In contrast to most other Huygensian writings, Cosmotheoros has had wide appeal and a broad readership and has been translated into several languages" (DSB). V: First edition of this standard work about constructing and using terrestrial and celestial globes, written by the 21-year-old scientist and philosopher. The plates depict globes, the world model according to Ptolemy and Tycho Brahe, etc. Wants two plates. Very rare; only one copy in German postwar auction records. No copy in America (OCLC). - Binding somewhat rubbed and bumped. Frontispiece of II remargined (not touching image), otherwise clean and wide-margined throughout. Exceptionally well-preserved sammelband containing three rare works on applied astronomy and the much-sought German editions of two classic works of modern astronomy. Ms. ownership note "CMB" on front pastedown; ms. table of contents on flyleaf. I: Fromm 16973. - II: Houzeau/L. 8890. Roller/G. I, 121. Poggendorf I, 203. - III: Hirsching XI, 261-263. Lalande 512. HAB Mass, Zahl und Gewicht 11.11 (only later eds.). - IV: Cf. DSB VI, 611. V: Lalande 428. Houzeau/L. I, 9758. Meusel II, 406. ADB V, 326.
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Brühl, Carl Bernhard.
Icones ad zootomiam illustrandam. Das Skelet der Krokodilinen, dargestellt in zwanzig Tafeln zu Erleichterung des Selbststudiums; sämmtlich nach der Natur gezeichnet, in Zink gestochen und erläutert. Vienna, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1862.
Folio (334 x 420 mm). (2), VIII, 48 pp. With 20 zincographic plates, the final one supersized and folded several times, all with tissue guards intact. Publisher's half cloth with printed boards and giltstamped spine title. Rare study of the crocodile's skeleton by the Austrian physician and anatomist C. B. Brühl (1820-99), a pioneer of comparative osteology and a champion of women's rights. Sigmund Freud writes that it was his hearing Brühl's reading of Goethe's "Die Natur" that persuaded him to enter medical school. - Binding rubbed; some foxing throughout, but well-preserved.
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Rinmann, Sven.
Versuch einer Geschichte des Eisens mit Anwendung für Gewerbe und Handwerker. Aus dem Schwedischen übersetzt. Berlin, Haude und Spener, 1785.
2 Bde. XVI, 512 SS. (8), 456, (38) SS. Mit 2 gefalt. Kupfertafeln. Zeitgenöss. Interimspappbände mit hs. Rückentitel. 8vo. Erste deutsche Ausgabe des erstmals 1782 in Stockholm erschienenen Werks, eines der maßgeblichen metallurgischen Kompendien des vorindustriellen Zeitalters. Der Bergbauexperte, Mineraloge und Chemiker Rinman (1720-92) gilt als "Vater der schwedischen Eisenindustrie" und war lange Jahre als Direktor mehrerer Bergwerke und Eisenhütten tätig; er hatte großen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der schwedischen Stahlproduktion. Die Übersetzung stammt von dem vor allem durch seine Berichte über seine Reisen in Russland bekannten Apotheker und Chemiker Johann Gottlieb Georgi (1729-1802). - Die Tafeln zeigen die Verfertigung eines Stahlmagneten sowie das Gerben des Roh- und Messerstahls. Einbände berieben und bestoßen; innen etwas gebräunt bzw. stockfleckig. Aus der Bibliothek des Schlosses Pfannberg in der Steiermark mit Stempel des österreichischen Industriellen Franz Freiherr Mayr v. Melnhof (1810-89, Eigentümer des Eisenwerks in Donawitz und Errichter der Gussstahlfabrik in Kapfenberg) am Spiegel und Titelblatt. Poggendorff II, 646. Ronalds 431. Engelmann (Bibl. mech.-techn.) 306. ADB VIII, 713. NDB VI, 242f.
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Schott, Caspar, SJ.
Physica curiosa, sive mirabilia naturae et artis libris XII comprehensa [...]. Editio altera auctior. Nürnberg & Würzburg, Johann Jobst Hertz für Johann Andreas Endter & Wolfgang Endter der Jüngere Erben, 1667.
4to. (54), 1389, (23) pp. With separate engr. title-page, full-page engr. coat of arms on the reverse of the letterpress title (printed in red and black), and 61 engravings on 60 plates (6 folding). Contemporary full calf with giltstamped title to elaborately gilt spine. All edges sprinkled in red. Second edition, vastly expanded from the first (published in 1662): an extensive treatise on the wonders of animal and physical nature, in which Schott relates exact scientific observations to fabulous phenomena such as demons, witches, and monsters, seeking to bring them into agreement with each other. Includes discussions of demonology, household spirits, St. Elmo's fire, comets and their portents, etc. "Tout serait à citer de cet énorme ouvrage véritable encyclopédie du merveilleux et de l'occulte" (Caillet"). Schott, from Königshofen near Würzburg , entered the Society of Jesus in 1627 and studied at Würzburg under Athanasius Kircher. He subsequently taught in Sicily for many years, but "he was anxious to satisfy a strong thirst for knowledge and to resume his connection with Kircher, whom he always revered as his master. Schott was able to satisfy his desire in 1652, when he was sent to Rome, where for three years he collaborated with Kircher on his researches. Schott decided that since Kircher did not have time to publish all that he knew and all the information communicated to him by Jesuits abroad, he himself would do it" (DSB). - Variously browned due to paper; a few tears to the final plate professionally repaired. A fine copy in its first binding with the price of acquisition ("comp. 1-12") on the flyleaf in a contemporary hand and an 18th century engraved bookplate (letter "T" with star of David, work of Carl Friedrich Holtzmann for an unidentified collector) on the pastedown. VD 17 39:120052P. De Backer/Sommervogel VII, 909, 8. Dünnhaupt 3818, 7.2. Nissen, ZBI 3746. Ferguson II, 340. Coumont, Witchcraft S31.2 ("Numerous very curious plates"). Dorbon-Ainé 4441. Caillet 10005 ("Ouvrage fort recherché"). Cf. DSB XII, 211.
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Welsch, Georg Hieronymus.
Sylloge curationum et observationum medicinalium centurias VI complectens [and other works]. Ulm, Christian Balthasar Kuhn for Gottlieb Göbel, 1668.
4to. (8), 89, (13), 52, (8), 46, (10), 63, (13), 109, (17) pp., 1 blank f., 70, (10) pp. With engraved title page and 3 engraved plates (2 folding). - (Bound with) II: Welsch, Georg Hieronymus. Consiliorum medicinalium centuriae quatuor. Augsburg, Lorenz Kroniger / heirs of Gottlieb Göbel, 1698. (6), 496, (56) pp. Title printed in red and black. With engraved portrait frontispiece and 19 engraved plates (1 folding). - (Bound with) III: Welsch, Georg Hieronymus. Exotericarum curationum et observationum medicinalium chiliades duae. Ulm, [Christian Balthasar Kühn], 1676. (4), 484, (60) pp. - (Bound first) IV: Schroeck, Lucas. Memoria Welschiana, sive Historia vitae viri celeberrimi, Dn. Georgii Hieronymi Welschii, Augustani. Augsburg, Koppmayer for Theophil Göbel, 1678. 90 pp. With engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary full vellum. The principal medical writings of the German physician and oriental scholar Georg Hieronymus Welsch (1624-77), including his biography, published a year after his death. "The author [was] a learned German doctor and one of the earliest members of the 'Societas Naturae Curiosum'" (Duveen, p. 617). Welsch, the son of an Augsburg pharmacist, studied classical and oriental languages, philosophy and medicine in Tübingen, Strasbourg and Padua, during which time he visited Central Italy and Rome. He returned to Augsburg to practice medicine, but due to an illness (possibly a form of depression) he was unable to maintain a regular practice and instead shifted his efforts into the field of writing. A correspondent of Leibniz's, he is also remembered as a translator of Avicenna. - The "Sylloge", which had first appeared in the previous year, is an extensive collection of medical works by earlier writers, several here making their first appearance in print: treatises by Marcel Cumanus, Hieronymus Martius, Achilles Gasser (the supporter of Copernicus and Rheticus), Ulrich Rumler, and Hieronymus Reusner, as well as a another by Welsch himself. This is the second issue; although it ends with "Finis", it wants a final part (19, [8] pp.). - Bound with this is Welsch's massive two-part work "Consiliorum medicinalium" (a posthumous 1698 re-issue) and (with its own 1676 title-page and issued separately) "Exotericarum curationum". The first part contains four centuries of medical case studies, compiled and edited from manuscripts in the author's private library (including sources by Gasser, Rumler, Marquard Slegler, and many others). Welsch's knowledge of oriental medical science is evident from his copious learned footnotes, frequently quoting (in Arabic) the works of "Ebnsina" (Ibn Sina, Avicenna). It is also remarkable for its numerous engraved diagrams, still largely in an alchemical and astrological vein. The second part contains two thousand items of medical observations and cures, drawn from the same sources and similarly annotated by Welsch. - Prefixed to these is the Life of Welsch, written a year after his death by the respected Augsburg physician Lukas Schröck (1646-1730). - Some browning and brownstaining throughout as common due to paper, but well preserved. I: VD 17, 1:062768Y. Krivatsy 12934. Waller 9857. Jöcher IV, 1883. - II: VD 17, 547:693998F. Jöcher IV, 1883. Cf. Krivatsy 12923 (1676, counted as "Part 1" of a joint issue with the following). - III: VD, 17 12:188321G. Krivatsy 12923 (counted as "Part 2" of a joint issue with the previous). - IV: VD 17, 23:241931E. Krivatsy 10663. Waller 17972. Jöcher IV, 1883.
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Lindner, Cornelius.
Gründliche Anleitung zum nützlichen Gebrauche der Erd- u. Himmels-Kugeln [...]. Nuremberg, Peter Conrad Monath, 1726.
8vo. (30), 296 pp. With an engraved frontispiece and 5 numbered engraved plates, folded. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary full calf with giltstamped spine and traces of a spine label. Red marbled endpapers. A scientific work giving practical advice on how to use terrestrial and celestial globes. Apart from remarks on longitude, latitude and on how to locate various points on a globe, the author also writes about time and climate zones as well as navigation at sea. The shorter part on celestial globes includes information on various types of stars, their position, movement and size and provides lists of constellations for the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The plates show the Ptolemaic, the Tychonic and the heliocentric model as well as different kinds of sundials. - Modern pencil ownership to flyleaf ("Heinz"). Slight waterstaining to margins, otherwise well preserved. From the library of Werner Habel, with his ownership stamp (dated 1982) to flyleaf. Bibl. Dt. Mus., Libri rari 173. Houzeau/L. 9746. Zinner, Instrumente 428. Not in Ebert.
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Vega, Georg Freiherr von (ed.).
Anleitung zur Zeitkunde mit Vergleichung der bey verschiedenen Nationen gewöhnlichen Zeitrechnungen, nebst einem immerwährenden Gregorianischen, und einem neufranzösischen Kalender [...]. Vienna, Rudolph Sammer, 1801.
4to. (12), 225, (3) pp. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards with later title label. First edition. - A well-preserved copy of this important work on chronology, edited by the mathematician and artillery officer Georg von Vega, who mentions "H. A. C. v. K." as the author in the foreword. The book covers various issues of chronology, such as the division of time, dominical letters, epacts, golden numbers and the calculation of the same, as well as the origin and significance of eclipses and solstices. Furthermore, the author discusses various calendars, such as the Gregorian, the French, the Jewish and the Islamic ones, and provides numerous tables and examples for calculations. - Paper variously browned and brownstained. Some flaws to the margins (without loss of text). From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel. Kayser VI, 43. Cf. Houzeau/Lancaster I, Sections II-VI, p. 1439, 13499. Not in Ebert, Graesse, Lalande.
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Ridinger, Johann Elias (ed.).
Entwurff Einiger Thiere, wie solche nach ihren unterschiedenen Arten, Actionen und Leidenschaften, nach dem Leben gezeichnet, samt beygefügten Anmerckungen. Augsburg, Ridinger, 1738-1740.
Folio (224 x 335 mm). 5 parts in one volume. Each with a title-page in red and black, 2 [part III: 3] letterpress pp. and 18 numbered engraved plates. In total 90 engraved plates. Contemporary full calf with giltstamped red and green labels to prettily gilt spine. All edges red. First edition. - This "masterpiece" (cf. Cobres) by the German engraver and publisher is considered the "most extensive and widely useful collection, owing its existence solely to him [Ridinger]" (cf. Thienemann). It includes a sequence of zoologically themed plates which "are highly sought after and often copied" (cf. Thienemann), showing animals in their characteristic actions and surroundings. Part one presents sporting dogs, while part two treats wild animals, such as lions, tigers and aurochs. Parts three and four cover "principal animals of the chase" (Schwerdt), namely aurochs, bears, stags, boars, deer, ibexes, chamois, lynxes and wolves. "Lesser animals of the chase" (Schwerdt), like foxes, rabbits, badgers, otters, beavers and squirrels are included in the fifth part. Two additional parts, showing horses, mules and donkeys, would be issued until 1755. - Contemporary bookplate of Count Ladislaus Kemeny to the patterned pastedown. A few notes in ink, mostly stating animals' Latin names. Binding and pastedowns slightly wormed. Top spine end missing, lower one scuffed. A few pages brownstained, plate 86 waterstained, a small tear in plate 81 (not touching image). From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel, with his signed and stamped ownership, dated 1979, to the flyleaf. VD 18, 90195426. Thieme/Becker 28, 309. Thienemann 391-480. Nissen 3406. Schwerdt III, 141. Cobres 307, 4.
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Hochstetter, Ferdinand von, Geologe und Prähistoriker (1829-1884).
Sammlung von 12 teils mit kleinen Anmerkungen versehenen Separatdrucken. Wien, 1876 bis 1884.
Mit einigen Beilagen (s. u.). Enthält 1) Goldringgeld. 1876. 1 Bl. - 2) Covellin als Überzugspseudomorphose einer am Salzberg bei Hallstatt gefundenen keltischen Axt aus Bronze. 1879. 13 Bll. - 3) Ergebnisse der Höhlenforschung im Jahre 1879. Zweiter Bericht. 9 Bll. - 4) Die fossile Fauna der Höhle Vypustek in Mähren nebst Bemerkungen betreffs einiger Knochenreste aus der Kreuzberghöhle in Krain.1879. 13 Bll. - 5) Ueber einem Kesselwagen aus Bronze aus einem Hügelgrab von Glasinac in Bosnien. 1881. 6 Bll. - 6) Über einen alten keltischen Bergbau im Salzberg von Hallstatt. - 7) Ueber prähistorische Begräbnisstätten. 1881. 21 Bll. - 8) Die Lettenmaierhöhle bei Kremsmünster. 1882.10 Bll. (Doppelt vorhanden.) - 9) Sechster Bericht der prähistorischen Commission der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften über die Arbeiten im Jahre 1882. 1883. 4 Bll. - 10) Sitzung der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Classe vom 8. März 1883. 1883. 8 Bll. - 11) Die Neuesten Gräberfunde von Watsch und St. Margarethen in Krain und der Culturkreis der Hallstätter-Periode. 1883. 28 Bll. - 12) Über die Hügelgräber von Frög bei Rosegg in Kärnten und die in denselben gefundenen Bleifiguren. [1884]. - Beiliegend der Partezettel des am 18. Juli 1884 verstorbenen Geologen, ein gedr. Nachruf, eine gedr. Erinnerung an ihn aus Anlaß seiner Umbettung in ein Ehrengrab sowie ein gedr. Nachruf auf den 1880 verstorbenen Chemiker und Botaniker Carl Hochstetter.
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Dietrich, Albert.
Terminologie der phanerogamischen Pflanzen, durch mehr als 600 Figuren erläutert und besonders zum Unterricht für Seminarien und Realgymnasien bestimmt; nebst einer Anleitung für den Lehrer, wie er in der Botanik mit Nutzen zu unterrichten hat. Berlin, Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin, 1829.
(2), 26 SS. Mit 8 lith. Tafeln. Halblederband der Zeit mit Marmorpapierbezug. Qu.-Folio. Erste Ausgabe. - Der Danziger Botaniker A. Dietrich (1795-1856) war Custos des königlichen Gartens zu Berlin und Lehrer an der Gärtner-Lehranstalt in Schöneberg. - Durchgehend etwas stockfleckig; die Tafeln teils gleichmäßig etwas gebräunt, aber wohlerhalten. Selten; kein Exemplar auf dt. Nachkriegsauktionen. Pritzel 2247. Nissen, BBI II, 482. OCLC 7431190. Nicht bei Dochnahl.
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[Yellow Fever].
Beschreibung des gelben Fiebers für Aerzte und Wundärzte der k. und k. k. österreichischen Staaten. Vienna, no publisher, 1805.
8vo. 22 pp., final blank. Papered spine. Rare, early treatise on yellow fever, in the early 19th century a poorly understood disease that was causing much sensation throughout the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and indeed the entire continent, due to several spectacular outbreaks in southern Europe. Not until the 1880s would the cause and transmission (the yellow fever mosquito) be identified correctly. - Estreicher erroneously attributes this brochure to the Spanish physician Juan Manuel de Aréjula, who had published similar works on the subject at the same time (translations even appearing in Vienna). In fact, the booklet was issued on behalf of the Austrian state ("auf allerhöchsten Befehl", at the Emperor's command) and distributed free of charge among general practicioners and surgeons in the Austrian countries so as to disseminate the relevant medical knowledge as quickly as possible. A Polish translation was published that same year. - Browned and duststained; traces of old shelfmarks and stamps to title-page and final blank. Only five copies in libraries worldwide (Austrian National Library, Munich, Frankfurt, Tübingen, Wellcome Collection). Wellcome II, 72. Lesky 67. Estreicher (19th c.) I, 92 and cf. I, 39 (Polish translation).
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Penther, Johann Friedrich.
Gnomonica fundamentalis & mechanica worinnen gewiesen wird, wie man sowohl gründlich, als auf mechanische Art, allerhand Sonnen-Uhren regulaire, irregulaire, mit Minuten und himmlischen Zeichen auf allerhand Flächen [...] verfertigen solle [...]. Augsburg, Franz Anton Veith, 1794.
Folio (ca. 213 x 342 mm). (4), 40, (4) pp. With additional engraved title and 15 numbered folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. All edges red. Fifth edition of the popular "Gnomonica" by the German professor of mathematics and economics Penther (1693-1749), first published in 1733. It discusses various types of sundials, their construction, how to install and adjust them, and explains important terms of geometry. The plates illustrate these explanations and include sketches for geometric calculations and a small map of Germany on plate II. With several shelfmarks with pencil and pen to pastedown. - Spine ends worn and chipped, paper lightly browned throughout, but an appealing copy. From the library of the Viennese collector Werner Habel. Houzeau/Lancaster I, V, 11614. Zinner 463. Engelmann, Bibl. mech.-tech. 279. Kayser IV, 316. VD 18, 12519219. Cf. La Lande 448 (1752 ed.); Poggendorff II, 400 ("1734", 1760). Cf. Ornamentstichslg. Berlin 1755 ("1734").
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Castillo, Juan del.
Pharmacopoea universa medicamenta in officinis pharmaceuticis usitata complectens, & explicans. Cádiz, Juan de Borja, 1622.
4to. (7), "335" [= 332], (6) ff. With a helmed, crested and mantled dedication woodcut of the Contreras coat of arms on the title-page (dexter argent paly of 3 azure, sinister an inverted tower, the whole with a bordure containing 12 X's) repeated at the end of liber I, woodcut device at the end of the text (stork standing on its left foot on a scull and holding a rock in its right foot, holding a banderole in its beak with the word "vigilate"), and a woodcut annunciation (including a banderole with "ave Maria gracia plena") above the colophon, a woodcut tailpiece (plus 5 repeats), and headpieces, tailpieces and factotums built up from arabesque and other typographic ornaments.Tree-pattern tanned sheepskin (ca. 1830), sewn on 3 recessed cords but with 4 false bands on the gold-tooled spine, with the title and author's name on a brown and a black morocco label in the 2nd and 4th of 5 compartments and the owner's initials J.S. (for José Saranderes) in the 5th, marbled endpapers (large blue shell on small brown shell, the form similar to Wolfe 125), headbands in blue and white. Rare first and only early edition, with the text in Spanish but the lists of ingredients in Latin, of by far the most extensive and most detailed early medicinal recipe book in Spanish, with recipes for about 300 medicines arranged in 9 sections for internal medicines followed by 3 sections for external medicines. Each recipe begins with a list of ingredients followed by instructions for the preparation of the medicine and information about its uses and dosage under various circumstances. Liber 1, section V is devoted to opium. The book closes with an appendix on weights and measures and an extensive index. Its only real predecessor, Luis de Oviedo's 1581 Methodo de la coleccion, y reposicion de las medicinas, offers only 49 recipes and gives no clear lists of ingredients. - Almost all we know about Castillo comes from the book itself, where he gives some biographical information. He was born to Spanish parents in Bordeaux, where he studied pharmacology, then worked in the apothecary shop at the Escorial in Madrid where he learned a great deal about chemistry (a remarkably early example of experimental chemistry in pharmacology: López-Pérez, Chymia, 2010, p. 344) and moved about 1610 to Cádiz where he set up his own apothecary shop. He noticed the dangerous lack of good Latin among young people working for apothecaries and provided the present work to remedy the situation. He was still fairly young when he wrote it. On the title-page he calls himself a professor of medicine at Cadíz, but he probably taught on his own account, for there was no faculty of medicine in Cadíz until 1748. The colophon's "en cassa de l autor" suggests the publication was his own venture, without institutional support, and he dedicates it to Juan Ruiz de Contreras y Téllez (ca. 1570-1625), an important councillor to King Phillip III, though he lost some of his influence when the king died in 1621. Although Castillo titles his book Pharmacopoea, and it was widely used and influential in Spain, it appears never to have been officially adopted as a standard, so that it does not fit the strict modern definition of a pharmacopoeia. The content of the book is: liber 1 (internal): I De conditis aut conservis. II De sapis. III De eclegmatis seu loch. IV De pulveribus aromaticis electuariorum. V De opiatis. VI De electuaris. VII De hieris. VIII De pilulis. IX De trochiscis. liber 2 (external): prefacio. I De oleis. II De unguentis. III De emplastris. [Appendix:] Tractado de los pessos, y medidas vivales. - With an owner's inscription of the Madrid pharmacologist José Saranderes, author of a 1837 manuscript on the preparation of opium, on the back of the title-page and his initials J.S. gold-tooled at the foot of the spine. Slightly browned with some foxing, spots and stains, a hole affecting a couple words in Y2 and restored corners in 7 other leaves without loss of text, but still generally in good condition. Binding slightly rubbed but otherwise good. The earliest extensive book of medicinal recipes in Spanish: a pioneering pharmacological work. Bibliographia medica Hispanica II, 140 (p. 63). R.R, Guerrero, Diccinario ... autores farmacéuticos I (1958), pp. 632f. A. Hernández Morejón, Historia bibliográfica de la medicina Española V (1846), 50. Krivatsy 2260 (lacking title-page & 1 text leaf). Palau 47896 & 48131. USTC 5021897. Wellcome I, 1355.
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Charas, Moyse.
Pharmacopée royale. Paris, Moyse Charas (colophon: printed by R. Chevillion), 1676.
4to. (12), 1060, (34), (2 blank) pp. With engraved frontispiece, engraved dedication and 6 numbered engraved plates. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine. First edition of a pharmacopoeia compiled by the French apothecary Moyse Charas (1618-1698). The pharmacopoeia begins with an extensive introduction to ancient (Galenic) and modern (chemical) pharmacy. Charas was among the protagonists in favour of the chemical pharmacy, however, he did not thoroughly reject the Galenic pharmacy. "The remainder of the volume was divided almost evenly between traditional and chemical preparations. … In a long section on the elements he openly took the side of the chemists stating that the four elements were insufficient to explain observations. … The chemical section included plates illustrating chemical equipment as well as chemical characters and symbols" (Debus). While Charas wrote several works, the present pharmacopoeia is his best-known and was soon translated into English (The royal pharmacopeia …, 1678), German and even Chinese, and as such the first European medical book translated into Chinese. - With the engraved bookplate of the Espich family ("Insign Espichiorum famil") and small label of the pharmacist Koenig. A few occasional spots, some stains to the title-page and page 9, a negligible waterstain at the head of some leaves, head of the spine chipped, but otherwise in good condition. Krivatsy 2371. Osler 2280 note. Wellcome II, p. 327. Cf. A.G. Debus, The French Paracelsians: the chemical challenge to medical and scientific tradition in early modern France (1991), pp. 130-131.
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Copponay de Grimaldy, Denis de Maubec.
Le tombeau de l'envie, ou il est prouvé qu'il n'y a qu'une medecine, qui est la chimique; qu'il n'y a qu'un temperament & une seule maladie, & par consequent qu'il ne faut qu'un remede pour la guerir [...] Traittant auparavant des eaux minérales de Saint-Simphorien, prés d'Annessy en Genevois; de Cessey, prés de Viteaux en Bourgongne; & de Sainte-Anne, à demie lieue de Dijon. Dijon, J. Ressayre, 1679.
12mo. 84 pp. 19th-century aubergine morocco, gold-tooled spine and board edges, gilt edges. Extremely rare treatise on a panacea by Denis de Maubec, de Copponay de Grimaldy (1623?-1717). This curious author was alchemist, personal physician to the king of Sardinia and founder of the Académie chimique ducale-royale de Savoie. He is known from a few short treatises from the end of the 17th century and his posthumous work published by Jourdan de Pellerin in 1745. While his name seems to have been well known in the past - at least until the 19th century, when he is described as the "fameux charlatan Grimaldi de Copponay" - actual information on the author and his work appears to be scarce. - With the bookplate of the 19th-century French bibliophile Henri Joliet from Dijon, with his monogram CBMHI (Claude Bernard Marguerite Henri Joliet) and the motto "Plus penser que dire", and a manuscript note that he acquired the volume in Lyon in 1843. A faint dampstain at the head throughout and at the foot of the title-page, but otherwise in very good condition. Brunet III, 1539. WorldCat (4 copies). Cf. Brüning 4477 (collected works). Goldsmith, BM-STC French C 1465 (other work). Krivatsy 7581 (other work). Wellcome II, p. 390 (3 other works). The author not in NBG.
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Palacios, Felix.
Palestra pharmaceutica, chymico-galenica, en la qual se trata de la eleccion de los simples, sus preparaciones chymicas, y galenicas, y de las mas selectas composiciones antiguas, y modernas, usuales, tanto en Madrid, como en toda Europa, descritas por los antiguos, y modernos, con las anotaciones necesarias, y mas nuevas, que hasta lo presente se han escrito, tocantes à su perfecta elaboracion, virtudes, y mejor aplicacion en los enfermos. Obra muy util, y necesaria para todos los profesores de la medicina, medicos, cirujanos, y en particular boticarios; muy anadida en esta tercera impression. Madrid, heirs of Juan Garcia Infanzon, 1737.
Folio. (12), 708, (28) pp. With the title-page in a border built up from cast fleurons and 5 engraved plates. Contemporary sheepskin parchment; recased, with later endpapers. Rare third edition of a work on pharmaceutical chemistry written by the Spanish apothecary Félix Palacios (1677-1737). When the Palestra pharmaceutica appeared in 1706, it was the first work on the subject written in the Spanish language. Even though the book became widely accepted and used in Spain, Palacios met strong resistance from his colleagues because he rejected the galenic, or plant based, medicines in favour of chemical medicines. With this he rejected the ideas of Galen, Mesue and Dioscorides, which were still the standard in most parts of Europe and the Middle East. The work starts with a preliminary text, followed by a chapter on the general principles of pharmacy and chemistry in the form of questions and answers. The other four chapters deal with the ingredients and making of the medicines. It discusses distillation and calcination methods with the engraved plates showing various tools and instruments: pots, furnaces, alambics etc. - First few leaves slightly damaged along the extremities, waterstains throughout and binding soiled, worn and recased; a fair copy. Blake, p. 336. Palau 209403. Wellcome IV, p. 286 (incomplete). WorldCat (6 copies).
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Vértes, Ludwig.
Verzeichniß bewährter Toilettemittel, chirurgischer u. Gummi-Artikel, Essenzen, sowie diverser pharmaceutischer Artikel. Lugos, Buchdruckerei Karl Traunfellner, 1897.
80 SS. Mit zahlreichen kl. Illustrationen in Holzstich. Klammergeheftete Originalbroschur. 8vo. In diesem Werbeheftchen der "Adler-Apotheke" in Lugos (Banat, Ungarn) finden sich Angebote für unterschiedliche Pomaden, Haarwuchs-, -pflege- sowie Enthaarungsmittel und Arzneien, die helfen sollen, das Körpergewicht zu reduzieren oder zu erhöhen. Unter der Rubrik "Gummi-Artikel" werden unter anderem Verhütungsmittel ("Pariser Spezialitäten") gelistet.
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Tinter, Wilhelm von.
Vorträge über niedere Geodäsie. 1 Theil. Wien, 1873.
424, 36, 57, 67, VII SS. 7 Tafeln. Lithographierte Handschrift. Halbleinen der Zeit. Gr.-4to. Gesammelte Vorträge des Studienjahres 1873 des späteren Rektors der Technischen Hochschule Wien. Der Band umfasst vier Abschnitte mit eigener Paginierung und Untergliederung: "Feldmesskünste", "Polygonometrie", "Methode der kleinsten Quadrate" und "Planimetrie". Die Tafeln mit technischen Zeichnungen geodätischer Instrumente. - Mit lithographierter Visitenkarte Wilhelm von Tinters von 1866 eingeklebt am Vorsatzblatt und eigenh. Widmung des Verfassers an einen Franz Schmid am Titelblatt. Von den laut Inhaltsverzeichnis VIII Tafeln sind die als Tafel VI und VII angegebenen technischen Zeichnungen ("Wetli's Planimeter" und "Polarplanimeter nach Starke") auf einer Tafel zusammengefasst. Der Einband leicht bestoßen und berieben.
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Spalowsky, Joachim Johann Nepomuk Anton.
Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vögel. Vols. 1, 4, 5, and 6 (of 6). Vienna, Selbstverlag, 1790-1795.
4to. 4 vols. (10), 20 pp. (10), 40 pp. (14), 33 pp. (12), 19 pp. With 2 watercoloured and 4 coloured engraved coats of arms, 1 coloured engraved dedication plate, 183 (instead of 186) plates of birds, 15 of which in watercolour and 168 on splendidly illuminated engraved plates, partly heightened in gold, silver and copper, with lavish watercolour borders. Contemporary glazed red morocco binding with double gilt engraved spine labels, splendid floral spine and cover gilding. Vols. 4-6 with coloured armorial supralibros to upper covers. Calico endpapers, all edges gilt. Unique copy of one of the rarest works of zoological book illustration, from the library of the banker, art collector, and patron Moritz von Fries (1777-1826), for whom the set was in all likelihood specially produced. Around 1800, Fries was considered without doubt the richest man in the Habsburg monarchy. The splendid engraved plates were elaborately illuminated, each with rich botanical and architectural decoration extending even beyond the engraved matter. In addition, the copy at hand was enhanced by 15 original watercolours (all in vols. 5 and 6), whereas the regular copies include merely prints. The only verifiable complete copies, in the Austrian National Library (ÖNB) and the Bavarian State Library (BSB), show less splendid decoration, with only three watercolours each in the respective volumes and no watercolour borders whatsoever. The Fideicommissum collection in the ÖNB holds 5 illuminated volumes of Spalowsky's work, with volume 5 containing the highest traceable number of watercolours among all copies available for comparison. As the final volume is lacking in the Fideicommissum collection, the eight watercolours and splendid framings of vol. 6 of Fries's copy are probably unique. - Since 1932, the only copies traceable at auction were those at Ketterer, 2017 (vols. 1-4) and Christie's, 2012 (vols. 1-3). The volumes sold in 2017, along with the ones at the ÖNB and BSB, belong to the normal edition without the watercolour embellishment and the artist's colouring, while the copy sold at Christie's would seem to have been at least comparable to Fries's in respect to its décor. However, neither the Christie's copy nor any of the others discussed above include any original watercolours, which are to be found in that of Fries's alone. - The splendid avian illustrations surrounded by landscape motifs and architectural decoration are labelled in red ink, identifying the animals' German and scientific names. The labelling is sometimes overpainted, suggesting that the decision to extend the watercolour décor was made at a later stage. The engravings were produced by five artists, among which were Benedikt Piringer and Sámuel Czetter. In vol. 5 of the Fideicommissum copy, Piringer signed one of the watercolours, proving that he provided templates for the engravers and contributed to the colouring. - Spalowsky's "Naturgeschichte der Vögel" was planned as part of a large natural history publication. In a subscription announcement from 1791 the surgeon and army physician advertised the plates showing species "previously not illustrated by any author" and promises the vivid, realistic colour "of the originals". A large proportion of the species depicted, including four falcons, originate from Asia, mostly from India and China, and are not to be found in Brisson's or Buffon's works. The present copy constitutes a special edition of the most expensive version of decoration, priced at 36 guilders - 15 times the cost of the plainest version. The eventual failure of this ambitious project was undoubtedly due not alone to the author's untimely death in 1797, although Spalowsky did succeed in wooing several prominent dedicatees for his elaborate publication. The "Naturgeschichte der Vögel" is dedicated to Alois I Joseph von Liechtenstein and Caroline von Manderscheid-Blankenheim (vol. 1), Beethoven's patron Franz Joseph Maximilian von Lobkowitz and Caroline Theresa von Schwarzenberg (vol. 4), Wenzel count Paar and Maria Antonia Princess Liechtenstein (vol. 5), as well as Anton Theodor von Colloredo-Waldsee-Mels, archbishop of Olmütz (vol. 6). - Provenance: 1) Maurice count Fries, with his library stamps, "EX BIBL(iotheca) MAVR(icii) COM(es) FRIES" to title-page (verso), now obscured by monogrammed red seals ("MF"); 2) Dorotheum sale, 12 Feb. 1932, lot 44, 75 ATS (description mounted to lower flyleaf of vol. 6); 3) Austrian private collection; 4) Dorotheum sale, 18 Dec. 2019, lot 222, not mentioning the Fries provenance or the 15 watercolours. - Marginal flaw to armorial supralibros of vol. 5. Lacks 3 plates (plate 2 in vol. 1, plates 6 and 39 in vol. 5). Index and plate 42 in vol. 4 have small flaws. Plate 31 in vol. 1, plate 43 in vol. 4, and plate 44, as well as one armorial engraving in vol. 5 slightly smudged. Nissen, IVB 888. Schlenker 345.1. Wurzbach XXXVI.56. Sitwell/Buchanan p. 143. Not in Nissen, ZBI. Not in Anker.
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Berghuis, S[ybolt].
Niederländischer Obstgarten. Le jardin fruitier Neerlandais. Groningen u. a. O., J. B. Woulters u. a., [1864-1868].
32 geheftete Lieferungen in den originalen Lieferungsumschlägen. 5 Teile mit zus. 124 chromolithogr. Tafeln. XXVI, 162 SS. 112 SS. 36 SS. 32 SS. 8, 8 SS. (2) SS. Gr.-4to (250 x 325 mm). Vollständiges Exemplar des prachtvollen pomologischen Kompendiums von Äpfeln (60 Tafeln, 162 SS.), Birnen (36 Tafeln, 112 SS.), Kirschen (8 Tafeln, 36 SS.), Pflaumen (12 Tafeln, 32 SS.), sowie Aprikosen und Pfirsichen (8 Tafeln, 8+8 SS.). Durchwegs in deutscher und französischer Sprache. Auf den 124 aufwändig gestalteten chromolithographischen Tafeln sind je zwei Ansichten und ein Querschnitt, bei Steinobst auch Kerne und Laub von zwei bis vier Obstsorten abgebildet. Das Titelblatt, die Widmung an den niederländischen König WiIlhelm III., eine Vorrede des Botanikers Karl Heinrich Koch (1809-79) und ein Vorwort des textverantwortlichen Boskooper Vereins zur Bestimmung und Veredelung der Obstsorten zu den ersten vier Teilen des Kompendiums sind der 2. Lieferung eingebunden (I-XXIV); ein zusätzliches Vorwort zu Aprikosen und Pfirsichen (XXV-XXVI) ist in der 23. Lieferung enthalten. Die 32. Lieferung enthält einen Index der Pflaumen, Aprikosen und Pfirsiche (2 SS.). - Der verantwortliche Lithograph Guillaume Severeyn (1830-1909) war Mitglied der Königlichen Akademie in Brüssel und ausgewiesener Spezialist für botanische Illustration. Sybolt Berghuis (1820-96) wirkte in Groningen als Maler, Zeichner und Aquarellist. - Provenienz: Bibliothek der evangelischen reformierten Hochschule in Budapest; als Doublette verkauft mit durchgestrichenem Bibliotheksstempel und Ausscheidungsstempel auf der 1. Tafel der 1. Lieferung (recto). - Die 1. Lieferung mit altem Wasserschaden auf dem Umschlag und allen Blättern. Die Bindungen meist lose, teils leicht braunfleckig und angeschmutzt, mit kleineren Randläsuren bzw. geknickten Seiten. Beiliegend eine Verlagsankündigung (in der 4. Lieferung) sowie ein Verlagsprogramm und drei Rechnungen von 1865 und 1868 des bedeutenden Pester Buchhändlers und Verlegers Károly Grill (in der 32. Lieferung). Vgl. Nissen, BBI 2221 (niederländ. Ausgabe).
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Thomas, Corbinian.
Mercurii Philosophici Firmamentum Firmianum. Descriptionem et usum globi artificialis coelestis. Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1730.
Oblong 4to (220 x 167 mm). Plate volume only (without the text). 84 engraved plates (13 folding) in original hand colour and gilt throughout. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped red spine label; spine attractively gilt. First edition. - A sumptuous copy in luxuriant and meticulous original colour, in nuanced hues with all the stars splendidly gilt. The plates show astronomical instruments, diagrams of cosmological theories, armillary spheres, celestial and terrestrial globes, a compass rose, a sundial, two maps of the moon, a map of Salzburg, and (in 54 engravings) the constellations of both hemispheres, including the zodiac. The plates are engraved by A. C. Fleischmann, J. C. Bernd, and J. Hering. Their Baroque iconography, mirroring the splendour of the absolutist prince in that of the celestial orb, places the work in the tradition of earlier astronomers such as Johannes Hevelius: Thomas situates a pair of stag's antlers, the armorial crest of the dedicatee, the prince-archbishop Leopold von Firmian, in the constellation of the Corona Borealis (Northern Garland), rechristening it "Corona Firmiana" in his honour. The frontispiece (fol. 2) shows Firmian's portrait. - The Benedictine monk Thomas (1694-1767) was an astronomer and mathematician, professor (in 1721), later librarian and vice-rector of the University of Salzburg. He taught Exegesis, Biblical Hermeneutics, rhetoric as well as Hebrew. - Covers rubbed; corners and spine professionally repaired using most of the original material, resewn. Endpapers somewhat soiled; handwritten ownership of Alfons Olsson (dated 7 March 1909) to front pastedown. Occasional fingerstaining to margins and a few small edge flaws; repaired tears to the folding "Tabula synoptica" and to the Virgo plate; a corner repair to fol. 12. Altogether very appealingly preserved. Cf. Wurzbach XLIV, 252. Lalande 392. Poggendorff II, 1096. Zinner (Instrumente) 535 (all citing the 1731 second edition).
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[Ottoman Atlas].
Manuscript map album of the Ottoman Empire. Ottoman Empire, ca. 1910.
Oblong 4to (264 x 195 mm). 14 leaves with 10 pen-and-ink maps, hand coloured with watercolours. Tissue guards. Full giltstamped cloth binding with tughra of Mehmed V (ruled 1908-18) on upper and "Album" on lower cover. A hand-drawn album of maps showing the western parts of the Ottoman Empire, with legends in Ottoman Turkish. Maps include northern Greece (from Macedonia to Constantinople), the Bosporus, the Dardanelles, Halkidiki, Albania, Crete, etc. - Finely preserved.
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Dillenius (Dillen), Johann Jakob.
Horti Elthamensis plantarum rariorum icones et nomina. Leiden, Cornelis Haak, 1774.
Folio. 2 vols. in one. (12) pp. With 325 engraved plates, numbered 1-147, (1), 148-324. 4 plates misbound: 6/7 and 273/274. Contemporary boards. Second expanded edition of "one of the most important of pre-Linnaean works" (Hunt): Dillen's description of plants in the great botanical garden in Eltham (London) of James Sherard, "one of the most richly stocked gardens in the world". - To this second edition the Linnaean binomal names are added on the preliminary leaves and in the present copy a contemporary hand has written these names in ink under each of the plates. The first edition, printed in London 1732 is extremely rare, only 145 copies of the plates and 500 of the original text were printed. The present second Leiden edition is praised for its very fine plates of succulents. - Johann Jakob Dillen (Dillenius) (1684-1749), was one of the important botanists of his time. He was born in Darmstadt and settled in England in 1721. James Sherard (1666-1738) was a weatlhy botanist and apothecary, whose gardens at Eltham, south of London, were famous for their exotic and rare plants from the Cape, Virginia, Mexico, the West Indies and Argentina. Sherard had visited other continental gardens and wanted to have his catalogued according to the highest scientific standard. He was able to persuade Dillen to take up this task. Many of the plants in Sherard's garden were new to science and were never illustrated before. Dillen immortalized the gardens with 325 excellent plates that illustrate 417 plants, drawn and engraved by himself. He complains in one of his letters about the high costs for meeting the demands of James Sherard without receiving any financial support from his side. However, when William Sherard died in 1728 he left a fund to the Oxford University for a professorship of botany, of which Dillen was the first holder. - "Dillen's work was highly respected by Linnaeus ... His Hortus Elthamensis (first edition 1732) may have served as a prototype for the Hortus Cliffortianus(1737)" (Stafleu, Linnaeus). The plates by Dillen were sufficiently accurate to be of considerable service to Linnaeus. In a gesture of appreciation Linnaeus named a genus of trees Dillenia. Dillen offered Linneaus his position as professor of botany at the University of Oxford, but he declined. - Wholly untrimmed with very large margins. Very many handwritten notes at the bottom of the pages, a small brown stain at the bottom of the page. Slightly rubbed and soiled but completely intact and firm. Overall in good condition. Dunthorne 94. Hunt 637. Nissen, BBI 492. Pritzel 2285. Stafleu, Linnaeus, p. 199. Stafleu-Cowan 1471.
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Hoffmann, Georg Franz.
Historia salicum iconibus illustrata. Leipzig, Siegfried Leberecht Crusius, vol. 1: 1785-1787, vol. 2: 1791.
Folio. 2 volumes. 66, (4), 67-78; 12 pp. With 24 engraved plates in vol. 1 (numbered 1-24) and 6 engraved plates in vol. 2 (numbered 25-29, 31: all published), all signed by I. Nuszbiegel after originals by the author, except plate 31, which is signed by Johann Stephan Capieux. Blue sprinkled paper over boards (vol. 1) and limp grey paper wrappers, stab-sewn through the wrappers (vol. 2). Both volumes of the first and only edition of Hoffmann's monograph on willows, published in instalments from 1785 to 1791, including the series of 30 engraved plates (numbered as 31) made to accompany them, showing willows, their branches, leaves and flowers. He describes different kinds of willows, their varieties, habitat and sizes. All descriptions refer to the plates, so that readers could use them together. - G. F. Hofmann was a German botanist and physician. He first served as professor of botany in Erlangen, then professor of botany and director of the botanical garden in Göttingen. Finally he went to Moscow, where he continued his botanical studies, taking charge of the Imperial Academy of Science's botanical garden and herbarium. - The two volumes of the "Historia salicum iconibus illustrata", including the engravings, have a turbulent publication history. Volume 1, in 4 instalments, was actually issued in two parts: instalments 1 and 2 (pp. 1-48), together with plates 1-5 and 6-10 respectively, appeared between February and June 1785. Instalments 3 and 4 (pp. 49-78), together with plates 11-16 and 17-24 respectively, probably in September or October 1786, the 4th instalment also including the title-page for the entire vol. I. Volume 2 appeared nearly four years later, between January and June 1791, together with plates 25-29 and 31. Plate 30 is never mentioned in the text or bibliographies, so it was apparently never published or was misnumbered “31”. - With manuscript owner's inscriptions on the title-page of instalment 1 and on the title-page of vol. 1. With the title-page to vol. 1 misbound between instalments 3 and 4. Binding of vol. 1 slightly worn, corners bumped. Paper wrappers of vol. 2 slightly frayed at the corners. With a small professional restoration to the foot of the spine. With some minor stains in each volume, but still in good condition. Both volumes, rarely found together, of a remarkable monograph on willows, with all the plates. Hunt II, 678. Johnston 565. Nissen BBI 893. Pritzel 4127. Stafleu & Cowan II, 2879.
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L'Héritier de Brutelle, Charles-Louis.
Sertum Anglicum, seu Plantae Rariores quae in Hortis juxta Londinum, imprimis in Horto Regio Kewensi Excoluntur, ab anno 1786 ad annum 1787 observatae. Paris, P. Fr. Didot, 1788.
Large folio. (4), 20 pp. With 35 engraved botanical plates (8 folding), 20 drawn by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, 1 each by J. P. and L. J. Redouté, 10 by James Sowerby, 2 by J. G. Bruyière, and 1 by B. Pernotin. Engraved by Fr. Hubert, Maleuvre, Juillet, J. B. Guyard, Stephane Voysard and Milsan. Contemporary half red roan (sheepskin), blue paper sides, green parchment corners. Preserved in custom-made box. Second edition, usually called the second issue, of a flower art book by the French botanist Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746-1800). In this book, L'Héritier describes 35 genera and 124 species of rare plants in Kew Gardens and the herbarium of his fellow botanist Joseph Banks, which he studied in 1786 together with Pierre Joseph Redouté. His text also refers to the 35 plates, which depict some of the flowers. L'Héritier mostly describes horticultural plants, including many exotic plants from South Africa. Most of the plates were provided by the two most gifted botanical artists of the age: the Frenchman Pierre Joseph Redouté and the Englishman James Sowerby. - The "Sertum Anglicum" was published as a token of the author's gratitude for the hospitality shown by Banks and other fellow botanists on his visit to England. Remarkably, 13 genera and 65 species of exotic plants are here described for the first time. Furthermore, no fewer than 31 of the plates are the first published illustrations of the species, and seven remain the only illustration of the species ever published. The book therefore remains an irreplaceable botanical reference work today, beyond its value as a work of botanical art of the highest quality, containing beautiful flower illustrations by two of the greatest masters of all time. - Although the imprint gives 1788 as the year of publication, Stafleu & Cowan call the present version of the "Sertum Anglicum" both a "reprint" and a "reissue", probably published as a whole after L'Héritier's death in 1800. It differs from the earlier version in the number of pages for the main text. The first version was published in five parts with the entire letterpress text in part 1. Its main text occupies 35 pages, while the main text of the present second version occupies 20 pages. But the title-page and the other preliminary leaf are apparently true reissues of the first printing, for both are dated 1788 and have the same imprint (giving the printer as Pierre-François Didot, although he died in 1795, and the same booksellers). While the imprint of the first issue suggests that it was printed and published as a whole in 1788, it was actually published in five parts between 1789 and 1792: in early January 1789 (the complete text and plates 1-2), May 1790 (plates 3-12), April 1792 (plates 13-24 & 15 bis) and late in 1792 (plates 25-34), respectively. Some types on the "1788" title-page were also out of date by 1800. - With a hand-written inscription on the first endleaf. Binding, especially the edges, slightly rubbed; the paper sides are slightly discoloured. With only a few stains and the edges of the paper slightly frayed. Spine professionally reinforced. A large paper copy of a rare work in good condition. Dunthorne 248. Great Flower Books 65. Hunt 692. Nissen (BBI) 1189. Pritzel 5270. Stafleu/Cowan 4492.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
Zur Farbenlehre. Nebst einem Hefte mit sechzehn Kupfertafeln. Tübingen, J. G. Cotta, 1810.
8vo and 4to. 2 vols. and volume of plates. XLVIII, 654 pp. XXVIII, 757 pp. With 17 plates (12 in colour; with the extra plate after no. II). Contemporary half calf with giltstamped Saxon arms on covers. Edges marbled. First edition of Goethe's principal scientific work, the "Farbenlehre", including the quarto-sized "Erklärung der zur Goethe’s Farbenlehre gehörigen Tafeln". "Goethe's first publication on optics culminated in his 'Zur Farbenlehre', his longest and, in his own view, best work, today known principally as a fierce and unsuccessful attack on Newton's demonstration that white light is composite" (DSB V, 445). The plates are of various sizes, showing this to be the earliest impression of the 17-plate set, but do not have the manuscript corrections present in some copies (cf. Hagen, p. 170). - Bindings somewhat rubbed; occasional brownstaining due to paper. A fine, complete copy in its first binding, originally in the library of the Dukes of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: gilt Saxon arms on the marbled covers; armorial stamps to all titles. Most famously, Duke Karl August was Goethe's friend, lord, and benefactor. Hagen 347, 347 d. Goedeke IV 3, 583 (46). Kippenberg I, 386, 389. Hirzel A 288. Speck 2289/90. Schmid 55-58. Brieger 733. WG² 79.
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Kaempfer, Engelbert.
Icones selectae plantarum, quas in Japonia collegit et delineavit. London, [Library of the British Museum], 1791.
Folio (265 x 420 mm). (4), 3, (1) pp. With 59 etched plates (8 are double-page) by Daniel Mackenzie. Slightly later half calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled monogram AL on spine. First and only edition of one of the rarest books on Japanese flora. Kaempfer (1651-1716) was a professor from Lemgo, Germany, who joined the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as a physician in 1685. After periods in what are now India and Indonesia he travelled in 1690 to Japan to work as a doctor on Dejima (Deshima), the Dutch trading post or factory in Nagasaki. This was one of the rare places where Western and Japanese people were allowed to interact. During his three-year term of duty, Kaempfer was twice allowed to journey to Edo (now Tokyo) in the company of the head of the factory. Upon his return he went into medical practice in his native town, Lemgo. After his return to Europe he wrote a number of works in manuscript, but did publish them, leaving them in manuscript at his death. Sir Hans Sloane acquired these manuscripts, alsong with his drawings and herbarium, and arranged for their translation and publication, the first to appear in translation was The history of Japan in 1727. This English translation established Kaempfer's reputation as the 18th-century authority on Japan and deeply influenced Japan's image in Europe. - Kaempfer's botanical drawings used for the present publication were among the more than 4000 groups of manuscripts from Sloane's collection that formed the core of the Library of the British Museum when it was established in 1753 (Sloane MS 2914). The renowned botanist and companion of the 1768 Cook expedition Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was responsible for the editing and publication of this work and dedicated it to the curators of the Library. In most cases no plates had previously been made from these drawings, so they remained unpublished. In the last years of his life Kaempfer himself had published only a small number of his drawings in his Amoenitatum exoticarum, printed in Lemgo in 1712. Thus the present publication introduces many Japanese plants for the first time to a large audience in the West. Kaempfer's herbarium is now in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. - Royal Library duplicate stamp in the foot of title page. With some minor foxing, the last few plates stained only in the lower margin, not affecting the illustrations. Otherwise in very good condition. Great Flower Books, p. 62. Henrey 886. Nissen (BBI) 1019. Stafleu/Cowan 3484.
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L'Héritier de Brutelle, Charles-Louis.
Stirpes novae, aut minus cognitae, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit. Paris, Philip Dionysius Pierres (part-titles add: sold by Louis-Nicolas Prevost, Paris; Peter Elmsley, London; and Rudolph Gräffer, Vienna and Leipzig), "1784"-"1785" [= 1785-1788].
Parts 1-4 (of 6) in 1 volume. 1mo (full-sheet leaves, ca. 37 x 54 cm). (2), VI, 1-20; (2), VII-VIII, 21-40; (2), IX-X, 41-62; (2) XI-XII, 63-102 pp. With a general title-page, 4 part-titles (each with a woodcut vignette) and 50 engraved plates (signed I-XLVIII, including VII bis and XXX bis): 22 after Pierre Joseph Redouté, 17 after L. Freret, 4 after Fossier, 2 after P. Jossigny, 2 after J.G. Bruguiere, and 1 each after James Sowerby, Cl. Aubriet and Prévost. Original publisher's pink paste-paper wrappers over boards. Preserved in a professionally handmade box, made for this book. First and only edition of a sumptuous botanical work by the French botanist L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746-1800). In this work L'Héritier describes a great number of new taxa, including many growing in his own garden (of more than 8000 plants), the gardens of his friends and in the Jardin du Roi. Hunt describes this work as L'Héritier's "magnum opus" and as a benchmark in the history of 18th century flower books: "The book is splendid in spacious description, its charming exotic plates, its implications for taxonomic history; and fascinating as an imposing piece of eighteenth-century bookmaking, with its series of fascicles printed on broadsheets, its bibliographical algebra" (Hunt). - This is also the first publication of a work by the young botanical engraver Pierre Joseph Rédoute (1759-1840), who engraved at least the 22 plates he drew himself. It is in this work that Redouté emerges as an extraordinary botanical artist, because L'Héritier asked him to draw the majority of the plates. On the "Stirpes novae" L'Héritier and Redouté collaborated for the first time, but after that they worked together more often, for example on the "Sertum Anglicum" (1788). Their friendship proved a determining factor in Redouté's career and enabled him fully to develop his extraordinary talents. - "Stirpes novae" is in 1mo format (each leaf comprising a full sheet) rather than folio, as many bibliographies state, with pagination, but without quire signatures. Although the "Stirpes novae" was intended for publication in the years 1784 and 1785 and the part-titles of the fascicles are dated thus, Stafleu & Cowan and Hunt note that these are not the actual dates of publication. The present first four (of six) fascicles were published in March 1785, April 1786, April 1786 and March 1788 respectively. Originally the "Stirpes novae" were to comprise two volumes, but only the six fascicles of the first volume were actually published. - Pink paper wrappers rubbed and some paper missing on the front and back board. Board edges and corners worn. A tear in plate XXXI, otherwise a rare book in good condition. De Belder 215. Hunt 673. Johnston 555. Nissen (BBI) 1190. Pritzel 5268. Stafleu/Cowan 4484. Cf. Buchheim, "A bibliographical account of L'Héritier's 'Stirpes novae'", in: Huntia, vol. 2, (1965), pp. 29-58.
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Swartz, Olof Peter.
Icones plantarum incognitarum quas in India Occidental. Erlangen, Johann Jacob Palm, 1794-[1800].
2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With XII finely hand-coloured numbered engraved plates. Near contemporary half cloth, marbled sides. Very rare first and only edition of an illustrated description of 13 Jamaican plants (13 illustrated with 1 plate each, but only the first 9 described) by the Swedish botanist Olof Peter Swartz (1760-1818), who had drawn some 200 plants during his travels through the West Indies. 71 of these drawings were destroyed in WWII. J.F. Volkart made 13 engravings after some of these drawings for the present publication (all showing Jamaican plants): in the present copy they are delicately hand-coloured with a subtle gradiation of tones. It was intended as part of the first fascicule of a much larger publication that would have contained engravings after all of Swartz's drawings, but the rest still remains unpublished today. - Swartz first published findings from his voyage to the West Indies in his Nova genera & species plantarum seu prodromus descriptionum (1788), which is not illustrated. He enrolled as a medical student at the University of Uppsala in 1778 (the year the elder Linnaeus died), studied under Carl Linnaeus the younger and graduated with a doctoral thesis in 1781. From 1784 to 1786 he traveled via North America to Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Haiti and Cuba and made a special study of the flora of parts of Jamaica that western botanists had not yet visited. On his return voyage, he stopped in London to study the collections of Banks and Linnaeus, comparing them with his own assembled material. After his return to Sweden he became a leading figure in Swedish botanical studies, in charge of the Hortus Botanicus Bergianus and professor of botany. - The title-page, dated 1794, says fascicule 1, and the table of contents, also explicitly described as fascicule 1, lists 25 numbered species, but the present copy contains all that was published: the descriptions for species 1-9 and one plate each for species 1-13. Fascicule 1 was intended for publication in two or more instalments. The first instalment, issued in 1794, includes the title-page (A1) and contents (A2) for the entire fascicule. One might think the first instalment covered species 1-9, and that plates 10-13 (intended for the second instalment) were added when further work was abandoned, even though no descriptions had been printed for them. Stafleu & Cowan, however, cites correspondence indicating that plates 1-6 were issued in 1794 and plates 7-13 in 1801, so it describes the work as two published instalments containing plates 1-6 and 7-13, and an intended third instalment, never published, that would have contained plates 14-25. But the nine descriptions appear on sheet B (pp. 5-8, though B2 is mis-signed "A2"), with the description of species 5 beginning on B1v and concluding on B2r, so the nine descriptions could not have been issued in two separate instalments. In any case, the descriptions of species 10-25 and the 12 plates for species 14-25 never appeared. - Spine slightly discoloured, corners a bit bumped. Minor foxing on the text leaves. Otherwise in very good condition. Hunt 735. Linnaeus and the Linnaeans, p. 155. Nissen (BBI) 1917. Stafleu/Cowan 13529.
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Apollonius of Perga.
Conicorum lib[ri] V, VI, VII. Paraphraste Abalphato Asphahanensi nunc primum editi. Florence, Giuseppe Cocchini, 1661.
Folio (228 x 330 mm). (36), 415, (1) pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With hundreds of geometric figures in the text. - (Bound after) II: Coenders van Helpen, Barent. Thresor de la philosophie des anciens où l'on conduit le lecteur par degrez à la connaissance de tous les metaux & mineraux [...]. "Cologne" (i.e., Groningen), Claude le Jeune, 1693. (6), 240 pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With allegorical frontispiece ("Escalier des Sages"), woodcut ornaments, 12 allegorical plates, and 5 copper engraved plates with alchemical motifs. Contemporary smooth, deep auburn full calf with gilt ornamentation and traces of a label to spine. Editio princeps of books V, VI and VII of the "Conica", the most original part of Apollonius's fundamental work on conic sections. The text survives only in the Arabic manuscript of Abu 'l Fath of Ispahan, purchased by the Medici family in the first half of the 17th century and here translated and edited by Alfonso Borelli. "This was a valuable addition to the mathematical knowledge of the time, for whereas Books I-IV of the Conics dealt with information already known to Apollonius's predecessors, Books V-VII were largely original. Book V discusses normals to conics and contains Apollonius's proof for the construction of the evolute curve; Book VI treats congruent and similar conics and segments of conics; Book VII is concerned with propositions about inequalities between various functions of conjugate diameters" (Norman). "The fifth book is especially important treating of normals as minimum and maximum straight lines drawn from given points to the curve" (Honeyman). "The sixth book is on the similarity of conics. The seventh book is on conjugate diameters" (Cajori). - A fine, wide-margined copy. - Bound first is the final edition of the "Thresor de la philosophie des anciens", a reference treatise for the theory and practice of alchemy, esotericism and hermetic philosophy that draws on Hermes Trismegistus, Paracelsus, and Sendivogius. Couched in the form of a dialogue, the book discusses the ten-step ascent to the single matter via two qualities, three principles, and four elements. The 17 remarkable allegorical plates depict alchemy, chaos, heat, love, the elements, sulphur, mercury, and salt. The Groningen politician Coenders (1601-78) first published this rare work in 1686. - Occasional light browning; title-page trimmed along top edge. Binding a little rubbed at extremeties, spine-end professionally repaired, but an appealing volume. I: Norman 58. Honeyman 119. De Vitry 29. Sarton I, 173-175. DSB I, 179-193 (Apollonius) & II, 308f. (Borelli). Cajori, A History of Mathematics, pp. 40f. DBI XII, 546. Riccardi I, 158 ("bella edizione, ed assai ricercata"). - II: VD 17, 7:651937N. Caillet 2419. Duveen 287. Verginelli 74. Brüning II, 2718. Brunet II, 1052.
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Cornalia, Emilio.
Monografia del Bombice del Gelso (Bombyx Mori Linn.). Milano, Giuseppe Bernardoni di Gio, 1856.
Folio (ca. 250 x 330 mm). IX, (1), 388 pp. With 15 numbered lithographed folding plates, including 1 chromolithographed, by Vassalli. Original printed boards. First and only edition of an extensive monograph on the silkworm by Emilio Cornalia (1824-82), conservator and director of the Milan Museum of Natural History. It was published as volume 6 of the "Memorie of the Instituto Lombardo di scienze, lettere ed arti". - With a presentation inscription by the author to Conte Lebregondi on the title-page. Binding slightly soiled, otherwise in very good condition. WorldCat records 6 copies. Horn/Schenkling 3868. Not in BMC NH.
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Glauber, Johann Rudolf.
Tractatus de natura salium [...]. Item, tractatulus parvus, & compendiosus de salium, metallorum, & planetarum signatura. Amsterdam, Johann Jansson, 1659.
Small 8vo. 2 parts in 1 volume. (16), 96 pp. (Second part has separate title-page): Tractatus de signatura salium, metallorum, et planetarum [...]. Ibid., 1659. 44 pp. With a few woodcut symbols in the text. Contemporary full limp vellum with handwritten author's name to spine and handwritten title to lower edge. First Latin edition, published a year after the German original edition. One of Glauber's most important publications, this contains among other items an account of his discovery of sodium sulfate in 1625 (cf. Dünnhaupt). The German alchemist and chemist Glauber (1604-70) has been described as one of the first chemical engineers. He here displays an early understanding of chemical affinity; Berzelius (in his "Lehrbuch der Chemie") points out that Glauber was among the first to recognize how sulphuric acid replaces nitric and hydrochloric acid in compounds, while alkali replaces ammonia. It was in the process of this research that he "discovered the 'sal mirabile' that bears his name, 'Glauber's salt'" (cf. Schelenz, 481). - Light browning and occasional waterstaining, but a good, attractive copy. The engraved title mentioned by Brüning is not present in any traceable copy and is probably a ghost. - Provenance: handwritten ownership "de La Roche" to title-page; 20th century bookplates of the bibliographer Guy Bechtel (b. 1931, "Le bibliophobe Bechtel") and of René Alleau (1917-2013), friend of André Breton and director of the Bibliotheca hermetica collection at the French publishing house Denoël (loosely inserted before the flyleaf). Ferchl 188. Neu 1690. Hoover 365f. Wellcome III, 124. Osler 2752. Duveen 257. Dünnhaupt 18.II & 19.II. Brüning 1979f. Not in Ferguson.
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Kircher, Athanasius.
Ars magna sciendi, in XII libros digesta, qua nova & universali methodo ... [vol. 2 half-title:] Artis magnae seu combinatoriae sciendi, ... [titles on the frontispieces:] Ars magna sciendi sive combinatoria [vol. 1] Artis magnae combinatoriae [vol. 2]. Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and the widow of Elizaeus Weyerstraten, 1669.
Folio (46 x 30 cm). 2 vols. in 1. (18), 245, (2), 247-482, (10) pp. With 2 richly engraved allegorical frontispieces, an engraved plate with a full-page portrait of Emperor Leopold I, an engraved plate showing all knowledge of the universe organised as a tree, 2 engraved volvelles (with 4 rotating dials), 20 further engravings on integral leaves and a couple dozen woodcut figures in the text. Contemporary richly gold-tooled red goatskin morocco decorated a petit fers, gold-tooled turn-ins, board edges and raised bands, giving a total of more than 1500 impressions of about 14 stamps and 3 rolls, edges gilt over red and blue squiggles. Janssonius van Waesberge, who published Kircher's books in Amsterdam from 1664/65 to 1682, arranged to have copies of several luxuriously bound for Kircher to present to leading figures, and this is almost certainly one of them, presented to Giovanni Paolo Oliva, Superior General of the Jesuit Society. First and only edition of this work important for the theory of science. Its fundamental idea of connecting all branches of science in a common system is based upon the thoughts of Ramon Llull. "Represents the 17th century research for a universal language" (Merill) and is considered a "fascinating anticipation and precursor of computer science" for its treatment of the art of combinatorics. At the same time, it forms a manual of mnemotechnics and of a method of learning. - On 29 July 1661 Kircher contracted to have the Amsterdam bookseller Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge (1616-81) publish his books, including new editions of some previously published works as well as works not yet written. Kircher also had Van Waesberghe arrange for some copies of the books to be luxuriously bound for presentation to various luminaries. - No expense was spared to produce the present binding, and it bears the owner's inscription of Giovanni Paolo Oliva (1600-81), Superior General of the Jesuit Society, who granted the privileges for both volumes - an obvious candidate for a presentation copy. Moreover, the binding is nearly identical to that of the Morgan Library's copy of the same edition, using the same tools in a nearly identical arrangement: thus, a single binder made at least two virtually identical and extremely luxurious bindings for the same edition, a fact which strongly supports the notion that they were made as Kircher's presentation copies. - In a 1948 Sotheby’s catalogue, Anthony Hobson attributes the binding of the copy now at the Morgan to the most famous Dutch binder of all time, Albert(us) Magnus (1642-89). Miner merely notes this attribution and the Morgan still attributes it to Magnus, but Nixon, discussing other Kircher books bound by Magnus, writes "I am less certain that ... the Ars magna sciendi in the Landau-Finaly sale ... does come from the same workshop". Similarly, De la Fontaine Verwey calls the attribution to Magnus "doubtful", and Foot writes that the binding "is decorated ... with closely massed tools, which I have not found on any other Dutch binding of the period". High-quality Dutch bindings in richly gold-tooled morocco from the 1660s to the 1690s were once almost invariably attributed to Magnus, but Foot distinguishes about a dozen different Dutch workshops that finished bindings in this style, noting that some "show the same high level of craftsmanship and are decorated with tools very closely similar to those used by" Magnus. The fact that few of these groups of bindings have so far been linked to named bookbinders takes nothing away from the quality of the work. The present binding represents a workshop of the highest order that has so far been barely studied, and its large number of tools, with more than 1500 impressions of about 14 stamps and 3 rolls, gives a good overview of the workshop’s equipment. The paper is of royal format, probably indicating a large-paper copy, since many copies seem to be 37 to 40 cm tall. - With the contemporary owner’s inscription of Giovanni Paolo Oliva at the foot of the title-page and the armorial bookplate of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam. Browned and foxed as common, a few leaves more severely, with the ink of both the letterpress text and the engravings sometimes leaving a browned offset or showing through on the reverse, but otherwise in good condition. The foot of the spine has a crack in the front hinge and a few wormholes and repaired tears in the backstrip (all within the lowest 4 cm); the head of the spine also shows a few wormholes but only minor damage. The turn-ins have browned the outer edges of the marbled pastedowns, and the free endleaves are more severely browned than the leaves of the book itself. The binding is otherwise in very good condition, with only minor scuff marks around the extremities and with nearly all of the tooling clear and well-preserved. De Backer/S. IV, 1066-1067 (no. 28). Breslauer cat. 107 [1984?], p. 188 (this copy). Caillet 5771. Dünnhaupt (Bibliogr. Handbuch), Kircher 23. Ferguson I, 467. Findlen, Athanasius Kircher, pp. 7, 35, 83-85 & passim. Fletcher, Athanasius Kircher (2011), pp. 415-417, 495, 557f. & 567 (no. 24). Honeyman 1827 (incompl.). Merrill, Athanasius Kircher 22 (2 copies, 1 lacking 1st frontispiece & 1 lacking portrait). Thorndike VII, 567. For the Morgan Library copy in a nearly identical binding: H. de la Fontaine Verwey, "The binder Albert Magnus ...", in: Quaerendo 1 (1971), pp. 158-178, at p. 163, note 3. Mirjam Foot, Henry Davis gift I (1978), p. 246. Dorothy Miner/Walters Art Gallery, History of bookbinding (1957) 434 (ill.). Howard Nixon, Broxbourne Library (1956), p. 154. Sotheby’s London, 13 July 1948 (Baron Horace de Landau coll.), lot 69. Sotheby’s London, 13 March 1956 (J. W. Hely-Hutchinson coll.), lot 391 (ill.). For Van Waesberge: Van Eeghen, De Amsterdamse boekhandel IV, pp. 257-163.
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Clemens, A. / Goffe, Louis André.
Über die Natur und Heilung der sporadischen und epidemischen Cholera. Nach dem Französischen bearbeitet. Frankfurt, Wesche, 1831.
8vo. 45 pp, (1) ff. Partially uncut. Marbled paper spine. One US copy traced, at Chicago. Not in Wellcome. Billings, p. 842.
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Flies, E. L.
Kurzgefaßte Mittheilung einer sichern Behandlungsart der Cholera, nach vielfältig darüber gemachten Erfahrungen. Berlin & Bromberg, Posen & Mittler, 1831.
8vo. IV pp, (5)-11 pp. Paper spine. No US copy traced. Not in Wellcome. Billings, p. 969.
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Hoeglauer, J. Georg.
Kurtze Winke und Andeutungen zur nähern Ergründung der Natur und Behandlung der Orientalischen Cholera. Regensburg, Pustet, 1831.
8vo. VI pp, (7)-40 pp. Original publisher's decorative wrappers, pages untrimmed. One US copy traced, at Chicago. Not in Wellcome. Billings, p. 845.
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Köstler, A. L.
Anweisung sich gegen die epidemische Cholera zu schützen, und dieselbe bey ihrem Beginn zweckmäßig zu behandeln. Vienna, Mörschner and Jasper, 1831.
8vo. 32 pp. Original blue printed wrappers. One US copy traced, at Yale Medical. Not in Wellcome. Not in Billings.
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Kratzenstein, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm.
Verlauf und Heilung der asiatischen Cholera für Aerzte und Wundärzte nach eigenen Beobachtungen bearbeitet. Helmstädt, Fleckeisen, 1831.
8vo. VI pp, (7)-28 pp. Paper spine. No US copy traced. Not in Wellcome. Not in Billings.
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Newton, John Frank.
The Return to Nature, or, A Defence of the Vegetable Regimen; With Some Account of an Experiment Made During the Last Three Years in the Author's Family. Part the first [= all published]. London, T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1811.
8vo. VI, 160 pp. - (Bound with) II: Johnson, James. The Influence of Civic Life, Sedentary Habits, and Intellectual Refinement, on Human Health, and Human Happiness, Including an Estimate of the Balance of Enjoyment and Suffering in the Different Gradations of Society. London, (W. Thorne for) T. & G. Underwood et al., 1818. VIII, 93, (1) pp. Contemporary full green straight morocco (bound by Charles Hering, Jr., of London) with gilt spine title and the gilt arms of the Earls of Harrington on both covers. Leading edges gilt; gilt inner dentelle. Matching green endpapers. Green silk ribbon. All edges gilt. First edition of this rare and early vegetarian work. J. F. Newton (1767-1837) sought to popularise the vegetable and distilled water diet of the physician and veganism pioneer William Lambe, whose patient he was. In his book, Newton promoted his own "regimen of distilled water and vegetable diet" (p. 66), believing vegetables to be the natural food of man and animal flesh unhealthy and unnatural. It was Newton who converted Percy B. Shelley to a vegetarian lifestyle, and his book influenced the poet's 1813 pamphlet on vegetarianism and animal rights, "A Vindication of Natural Diet". - Bound with this is a rare hygienic work by the surgeon J. Johnson (1777-1845), physician to the Duke of Clarence (afterward King William IV). - Interior very slightly browned, but a fine specimen, beautifully bound by Charles Hering for the library of Charles Stanhope, Viscount Petersham and afterwards the 4th Earl of Harrington (1780-1851). Known as "Beau" Petersham, the eccentric but much-imitated gentleman was a close friend of the Prince Regent George, who emulated his mannerisms in clothing, tea mixes, and consumption of snuff. Lord Petersham designed many of his own clothes and his fashions were quickly copied; he made famous the "Harrington" hat and the "Petersham" overcoat. The final pages of the present volume contain contemporary handwritten annotations about the poisonous effects of a fruitarian diet of (quoted from Jacques de Sade's "Mémoires pour la vie de Pétrarque") and about the high regard in which Galen and Hippocrates held water and abstinence, very likely in Petersham's own hand.
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